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Friday, October 02, 2009

The Friday Five

1. My own bed. There's just something about my own mattress, pillows, and covers that makes me sleep well. We were in 8 different hotels and one friend's house on our vacation.

2. My laptop is once again all mine. On the vacation, the daughter needed the laptop for schoolwork, and the DH needed it to check hotel rates, museum hours, email, and maps. They kept logging me out of my email account, my FB page, etc. They turned off my favorites list on my browser. I just like my computer to be my computer.

3. My cat. She LOVES me, and boy howdy, did she miss me. She's been my constant companion for the past week. She's more vocal than ever before, and more tolerant of my mushing on her.

4. Caribou Coffee's Earl Grey. I got to go back to my familiar haunt (insert Cheers theme song here) and the baristas knew me, made my Earl Grey, invited me to sample a new tea. It was soooo like slipping into a favorite pair of slippers and your ratty old comfy robe.

5. Getting back to work. This week I finished the content edits on Clara and the Cowboy and sent those in. It felt so good after three weeks away from writing to get back to work.

So, what do you like best about being home and your daily routine?

Also, on a side note:

I'm currently setting up a blog tour for The Bartered Bride for the month of November. I've been so encouraged by the responses. If you would be interested in featuring The Bartered Bride on your blog, please leave me a way to contact you in the comments section and I'll send you the info. You'll get a copy of the book and a copy to give away if you would like. I'm willing to do interviews or guest blogs, or you can just post the book information.

I'll post a list of the blog sites and dates as November draws nearer.

I'm not much of a traveler...love coming home to my dogs on those rare occasions I take a trip. I always worry about them when I'm gone.

I have a smaller readership, but if you're interested, I'd love for you to do a guest post on my blog (and a giveaway would be stellar). You can click into my profile for both my blog address and email address - just let me know if you're interested. :-)

Jamie, I worried about my kitty while I was gone. I worried that she might hold a grudge when I got home, but I guess I was gone long enough that she decided she loved me so much she wouldn't be mad about my being gone. :)

I really like my own bed, especially after the last vacation we took. We were gone for 18 nights....9 nights were at friends' or families' houses, the other 9....well....9 of us slept in our 12 passenger van in state and national park campgrounds. Talk about needing some alone time! :) It was also very nice to be home so we didn't have to live out of Rubbermaid totes stored in a trailer. I'm still hoping to get pictures put on facebook pretty soon. Don't get me wrong...we had a wonderful vacation, but we were all glad to be home.

Erica, we do enjoy camping, but we about pushed our limit on this trip. We just can't stand to pay for 2 hotel rooms...gets expensive pretty fast. Campgrounds are a lot cheaper (especially ones in state & national parks).

Yes, the pictures will come eventually. I think between all the cameras we took over 2000 pictures. It just takes awhile to sort through them. I don't want to upload all of them, and I don't think you want to see all 2000 pictures.